I also have an x61s that I was trying to install FreeBSD on but had the same tricked out error messages as in your screenshot. I was never able to get past it. Your article didn't describe how you got around that. Could you please provide more detail?

This was the 7 release. At the time I had a USB cdrom that I tried it
on and I got the same screen you had posted:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/images/ThinkPadx61s/thumbs/100_3997.png

It appears to be a set amount of text that just scrolls incessantly
across the screen. I recently only have a USB floppy now. I tried
with the floppies (formatted first, then used fdimage) but I get the
same behavior.

OK....I don't have a docking station option...unfortunately. Do you know if there was a specific issue with this hardware and installing from USB fdd,cd, etc.? Do you have any other ideas on how to get it set up on this machine without docking station?